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The robot that could revolutionise home care for elderly people
Not all robots will take over human jobs. My colleagues and I have just unveiled a prototype care robot that we hope could take on some of the more mundane work of looking after elderly and disabled people and those with conditions such as dementia. This would leave human carers free to focus on the more personal parts of the job. The robot could also do things humans don't have time to do now, like keeping a constant check on whether someone is safe and well, while allowing them to keep their privacy. Our robot, named Stevie, is designed to look a bit (but not too much) like a human, with arms and a head but also wheels.
Journalism Is Imploding Just As We Need It Most
One of the few bright spots this past year was supposed to be the revival of journalism. And to be sure, it's been a great time for muckraking, with newsrooms bringing home scoop after scoop on the Trump administration. Subscriptions to everything from the New York Times to Mother Jones are up. And for the first time in decades, trust in news media is rising too: Today, 54 percent of the public have confidence in journalists to tell the truth, while only 36 percent trust the president. Here's where the story turns more complicated.
[D] Is there exists any attempts of creating NPC dialog system that uses natural languages processing? โข r/MachineLearning
I know that this looks like chat-bot problem, but as I think it must be a lot easier, because in a games there should be some boundaries of information that would be interesting for a gamer. So NPC should have an understanding of game important stuff only and just don't talk about any other things. This looks like very interesting application of machine learning but I never heard about something similar to it. The only thing I found is a Spirit AI with no information about how their technology works or any public demonstration. So, where could I find any research or projects similar to this topic?
Can Cameras and Machines Recognize Lying in Your Face?
The code has been copied to your clipboard. One of the most popular tools on Apple's new iPhone X is its facial recognition system. This latest iPhone gives users the power to open the device just by looking at it. The smartphone has performed well in tests set up to trick it into opening for an unapproved user. The same kind of facial recognition system is also used for other purposes.
Watson Customer Engagement โ Embrace the Power of the Force - Watson Customer Engagement
November 15, 2017 Written by: Kareem Yusuf, Ph.D As a huge Star Wars fan, I have always wanted to have a set of supernatural powers, such as the ability to sense impending attacks; influence the thoughts of others, known as the "Jedi mind trick;" and even see the future. In essence, the Force โ meaning the wisdom, expertise and ability to know exactly what will happen next and what I should do in the moment. Of course, there is only one problem with all this--our current reality. Wilson predicted, the world will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time and think critically about it to make important choices wisely. And, that is exactly what IBM Watson is doing today.
Amazon Echo Show review: the smart speaker with a screen has great potential
The Amazon Echo Show takes the Alexa voice assistant and squeezes it into a cross between a digital photo frame, small TV and smart speaker for something that's more than just an interesting novelty. The Echo Show is effectively what you get if you took an Alexa-integrated Fire tablet, put a powerful speaker on the bottom and framed it with glossy black plastic. The result is a rather monolithic look. For such a small thing it looks fairly imposing, and has split opinion of visitors to my house 50:50 on whether it's attractive, but placed in a corner or on a shelf, it can easily blend in with the surroundings. In fact, when it's not actively doing something, the Echo Show can operate like a smart, internet-connected version of those digital photo frames that quickly went out of fashion.
FlashText - A library faster than Regular Expressions for NLP tasks
As the decades went on, differing interpretations of the character emerged. The late 1960s Bruce Wayne television series used a camp aesthetic, which continued to be associated with the character for years after the show ended. Various creators worked to return the character to his dark roots, culminating in 1986 with The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller. The success of Warner Bros.\' live-action Bruce Wayne feature films have helped maintain the character\'s prominence in mainstream culture.[8]\n\nAn American cultural icon, Bruce Wayne has garnered enormous popularity and is among the most identifiable comic book characters.
'Mystery Science Theater 3000' will return to Netflix for season 12
Jennifer Lawrence, director Darren Aronofsky split After Charlie Rose accusations, Seth Meyers says it's time to retire the bathrobe Nick Carter, accused of rape by Dream singer Melissa Schuman, is'shocked and saddened' Russell Simmons' accuser tells Megyn Kelly: 'There was no dispute about what happened' David Cassidy remembered: Who'did not want to look like, sound like, just be him?' After Charlie Rose accusations, Seth Meyers says it's time to retire the bathrobe Nick Carter, accused of rape by Dream singer Melissa Schuman, is'shocked and saddened' Russell Simmons' accuser tells Megyn Kelly: 'There was no dispute about what happened' David Cassidy remembered: Who'did not want to look like, sound like, just be him?' 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' will return to Netflix for season 12 Fans of wisecracking robots and terrible science fiction flicks, rejoice: "Mystery Science Theater 3000" will return for a new season on Netflix. The news of the 12th season was announced at the end of the annual "MST3K" Thanksgiving marathon hosted by Jonah Ray, Felicia Day and Joel Hodgson. The reveal didn't include a premiere date, but the corresponding news release promised the new season would drop in the "not-too-distant-future." Factory) launched a Kickstarter in hopes of resurrecting the scrappy series, which aired from 1988 to 1999. The crowdfunded operation was a success and brought in more than $5 million for a brand new Satellite of Love, the spaceship in which Joel and his pals reside.
MuseGAN: Multi-track Sequential Generative Adversarial Networks for Symbolic Music Generation and Accompaniment
Dong, Hao-Wen, Hsiao, Wen-Yi, Yang, Li-Chia, Yang, Yi-Hsuan
Generating music has a few notable differences from generating images and videos. First, music is an art of time, necessitating a temporal model. Second, music is usually composed of multiple instruments/tracks with their own temporal dynamics, but collectively they unfold over time interdependently. Lastly, musical notes are often grouped into chords, arpeggios or melodies in polyphonic music, and thereby introducing a chronological ordering of notes is not naturally suitable. In this paper, we propose three models for symbolic multi-track music generation under the framework of generative adversarial networks (GANs). The three models, which differ in the underlying assumptions and accordingly the network architectures, are referred to as the jamming model, the composer model and the hybrid model. We trained the proposed models on a dataset of over one hundred thousand bars of rock music and applied them to generate piano-rolls of five tracks: bass, drums, guitar, piano and strings. A few intra-track and inter-track objective metrics are also proposed to evaluate the generative results, in addition to a subjective user study. We show that our models can generate coherent music of four bars right from scratch (i.e. without human inputs). We also extend our models to human-AI cooperative music generation: given a specific track composed by human, we can generate four additional tracks to accompany it. All code, the dataset and the rendered audio samples are available at https://salu133445.github.io/musegan/ .